Senior Software Engineer - Performance Engineer at Staples India Business Innovation Hub Private Limited

, Andhra Pradesh, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

24 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

24 Jan, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Performance Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing, Capacity Planning, Performance Monitoring, APM Tools, Log Analysis, Application Servers, Microservice Architectures, Performance Tuning, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Diagnostics, Optimization, Collaboration, Mentoring

Industry

technology;Information and Internet

Description

As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Performance Engineering, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and overall performance of our large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to diagnose complex performance issues, execute performance tests, and provide hands-on tuning to maintain and enhance our system efficiency. You will leverage your expertise in performance monitoring tools, cloud architecture, and coding to solve intricate problems in our high-traffic e-commerce environment. Duties & Responsibilities Performance Strategy & Testing Design and execute performance testing strategies including load, stress, and capacity planning using tools such as JMeter, Locust, and LoadRunner. Automate performance testing within CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous validation. Diagnostics & Optimization Analyze system performance using thread dumps, heap dumps, TCP dumps, and APM tools (e.g., New Relic). Utilize log analysis platforms like Splunk to create dashboards, queries, and regex-based filters for root-cause analysis. Optimize application servers (Tomcat, Node.js, Spring Boot) and network performance using tools like Wireshark, Extrahop, and Riverbed. Monitoring & Front-End Performance Monitor production systems and proactively identify bottlenecks using APM and observability tools. Improve browser-side performance using Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools, Catchpoint, and WebPageTest. Collaboration & Leadership Partner with developers, SREs, QA, and DevOps to embed performance considerations into design, development, and deployment. Participate in code reviews to ensure performance and architectural standards. Mentor junior engineers and promote performance engineering best practices across teams. Continuous Improvement Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in performance engineering. Contribute to feature design and system architecture with a performance-first mindset. Requirements Basic Qualifications Extensive hands-on experience in non-functional requirements, performance test planning, execution, reporting, analysis, and defect tracking Hands-on experience with at least one performance testing tool (e.g., JMeter, Locust, LoadRunner, K6), with a strong preference for JMeter Proficiency with APM tools (e.g., New Relic, Dynatrace) for performance monitoring and analysis Experience with log indexing and querying tools like Splunk (queries, regex, dashboards, alerts) Experience with browser-side performance tools (e.g., Catchpoint, Lighthouse, Google Developer Tools, WebPageTest) Demonstrated expertise in performance tuning of application servers, including Tomcat, Node.js, and Spring Boot Strong knowledge of microservice architectures Extensive hands-on experience in non-functional requirements, performance test planning, execution, reporting, analysis, and defect tracking

Responsibilities

The Senior Software Engineer will design and execute performance testing strategies and collaborate with cross-functional teams to diagnose and optimize performance issues. They will also mentor junior engineers and contribute to system architecture with a performance-first mindset.